Word Meaning 六道四生

ろくどうししょう rokudoushishou

六道四生 is read as ろくどうししょう (rokudoushishou) and means four kinds of birth in the six destinies.

Meaning

English

  1. four kinds of birth in the six destinies

Reading

Kana

ろくどうししょう

Romaji

rokudoushishou

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 26 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 78241 Priority M

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

六道

ろくどう

the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm)

六十四分音符

ろくじゅうしぶおんぷ

64th note

六道銭

ろくどうせん

six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)

六公四民

ろくこうよんみん

land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)

六三三四制

ろくさんさんよんせい

six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)

六十四卦

ろくじゅうしけ

the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)

六道輪廻

ろくどうりんね

endless circle of transmigration in the six posthumous worlds

四回生

よんかいせい

fourth year (college) student

四分六

しぶろく

six to four ratio

四六時中

しろくじちゅう

around the clock

二四六九士

にしむくさむらい

nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)

修道生活

しゅうどうせいかつ

monasticism